Racherbaumer, Jon (Editor): The Legendary Kabbala (1971-1981) ©1998 D. Robbins & Co., NY, and Jon Racherbaumer Hardcover, w/dj, 45 pages

Image courtesy Najee Williams/Hocus Pocus Focus

Image courtesy Najee Williams/Hocus Pocus Focus

Comments: Entry courtesy Najee Williams. Illustrated by Joseph K. Schmidt. Re-compiled and re-organized from the issues of Kabbala magazine.

Contents (from book ToC)

15 Cardstuff

15 Techniques

15 Forces
15 Farcical Force
15 Original Christ Force
16 - First Variation
16 - Second Variation
17 - Third Variation
17 - Fourth Variation
17 - Fifth Variation
18 Variations of K.M. Force
20 - Art Altman Handling

21 Switches - Changes
21 Bold Atfus
23 Coin Kick and Card Change
24 Convincing Jogged Change
25 Eidetic Change
29 Kick-Off Switch
31 Push-In Change
32 Finn Change
33 Jelly Roll Change
35 Spinner
37 Mario’s Curry Curve
38 No Way
39 Deal Switch
42 Scoop Change
43 Mechanical Change
45 New Card Add
46 P.S. Move - Secret Subtraction Finesse
47 Slow-Motion Mamase Change
48 Ruffle Shuffle

49 Palms
49 Bottom Palm Replacement
49 - Basic Rotary Movement
50 - The Replacement
51 - The Delayed Replacement
52 Mario On The Longitudinal Palm
52 - Longitudinal Top Palm
54 - To Palm Off Several Cards

55 Counts, Cuts, Shuffles
55 Expert’s Elmsley Count
56 Spirit Count
58 Repeat Code 345
59 Marnase False Cut
60 Overhand Cull Shorts

61 Crimps Deals and Steals
61 One-Hand Crimp
62 - Placement Control
63 Multiple Minus Bottom

65 Passes
65 Mario Half Pass

67 Spreading
67 Partial Ascanio
68 Pivot Spread Variation
70 Ruse Cull
72 Side-Jog Cull
73 - First Method
75 - Second Method
76 - Third Method
77 - On A Single Card Cull
79 - On Convincing Control
79 Side-Jog Glide
82 Spread Notes
82 - Razor-Edge Pivot Spread
82 - Dainty Pivot Spread

83 Arsenal Additions
83 New Quick Three-Way
85 One-Hand Tilt
86 Tilt Throw-off I
87 Tilt Throw-Off II
87 Mario’s Screening Action
88 Propelled Lapping Ideas
89 - As An Apparrent Control
89 - As A Classical Quickie
89 - As A Secret Exchange
89 -- First Approach
90 -- Second Approach
90 -- Third Approach
90 Out Of The Rut Reverse

93 Applications

93 Blind Ambition
93 Ambitious Swindle
94 Dual Ambitious
94 - Phase Two
95 - Phase Three
96 - Climax Phase
96 For The Unambitious
98 Still Avid

100 Four Aces
100 No Trace Aces
101 Gourmet Slide Aces
105 Sawing A Lady In Half?

108 Four-Ace Muster-Cluster
108 All-Fair Four-Ace Effect
109 Elmsley Assembly
110 Magician’s Sleeper Aces
114 Zap Aces
116 Zap Variant

116 Back-Tracking
116 Disassembling Jokers
120 Technicolor Disassembling Jokers
124 Gather And Scatter Ye Colorful Jokers

126 Roundabout Aces
126 Blended Succession
128 Successful Succession
128 - Full Deck Approach
130 - Packet Approach
131 Succession Aces Of A Different Color
131 - Five-Card Ace-Packet Approach
134 - Four-Card Ace Approach
136 Pyramid of the Kings
140 - Variation Without Second Dealing

141 Think Ace
141 Cased-In Technicolor Thought
143 Spread Think Ace
144 Tabled Think Ace
145 More Technicolor Thoughts
146 - R-B Double-Backed Think Ace
147 - SwindleTechnicolorThought
147 - Four-Card Technicolor Thought #1
148 - Four-Card Technicolor Thought #2

148 Ace-Cutting
148 Lead-In Ace-Cutting
149 To Set Up
151 - Further Notes
151 - Mario’s Favorite Procedure
152 Spectator Cuts Off More Than He Can Choose
154 - Alternate Handling
154 Spectator Cuts To And Turns Over The Aces

156 Casting Spells
156 Swindle Speller
157 Spell Mell
159 Spellbinder
164 Shift Spell
166 Taking Further Than That Too Far

168 The Raw And The Cooked
168 Canned Cannibals
170 Cannibal Cards
172 Cannibals French-Style
174 Colorful Cannibals
177 Real-Gone Missionaries
178 - Unlimited Count Variation and Display
181 Uncanny Cannibals
184 Dessert

185 Deli Deceptions
185 Color-Changing Eidetic Sandwich
186 Slap Jack
187 - Second Method (No Force)
187 Pressed Between

188 Clock-Work
188 Atomic Clock
193 Predetermined Hour
195 - First Handling
195 - Second Handling
195 - Third Handling
195 - Fourth Handling
196 Impromptu Predetermined Hour

196 Mental Cases
196 Another Encore
199 Blankwave
201 Group Shuffle
202 Card Clairvoyancy
203 Christ-Crossed Clairvoyance
205 Doubly Open
206 Think As I Think
209 Some People Think
210 - Notes On Presentation
211 Still Visiting
212 Totally Telepathic
213 Turning On An Audience
215 - Phase Two
215 - Phase Three
216 21 Plus Subtlety
217 Lie Sleuth
218 Ma Bell Ringers
221 “Card Thirteen” In Spades
222 Ho-Hum Humdinger
224 Humming With Hummer
227 Third Thot
228 Wired Hidden Power
229 Impromptu X-ray Deck
230 - Second Method
232 Riding The Wave
233 Phantom Deck
234 - To Repeat
234 - Second Effect
235 - Third Effect
235 - Climax
235 - Double Out

237 Prime-Time Plots
237 Another Elevator
239 Between Elmsley Brown and Himber
241 More!
244 Complot Wallet Routine
246 Castillon's Connection
250 Elusive Jacks
252 Fantasy Tom And Restored Card
256 Jumping Jacks
260 Quick Reflex
260 - Flip Pick-up

261 Walk On The Wild Side
261 Flip’s Wild Card
262 Hand-Out Wild Card
265 Impromptu Wild Card

267 Oil And Water
267 Early Oil And Water
268 - Second Phase
269 - Third Phase
270 - The Magic Separation
272 Floating Phase
273 Veeser Phase
274 Oil Slick And Water Wonderful

276 Faro Foolery
276 Easy-Way Faro-Fooler
277 Faro Riffle Shuffle
281 Incomplete Faro Transposition
281 - First Method
282 - Second Method
283 - Third Method

285 Locus-Pocus
285 Conditional Find
287 S-D Location
288 Countdown Disclosures
288 - First Discosure
289 - First Alternative
289 S- econd Alternative
290 - Second Disclosure
291 O Henry Find
293 Ten Paces To The Right
294 - Racherbaumer Note
295 Reversal Track
296 Tossed-Timated
297 Yore Finder
298 Inconclusive Climax
300 Card Number
301 Covert Coin
303 Ethnic Card Trick
304 X Marks The Spot
307 For The Color Blind

308 Collectors
308 Cervon’s Ambush
309 Taking Flight

311 Mirroring
311 Blind Date
312 Mateh-A-Matic
314 Matching Prediction
315 Right Number

317 Transpotential
317 Back And Forth
318 Colorful Cased-In Transpo
321 Signature Rush
321 - First Method
322 - Second Method
323 - Third Method
323 - Fourth Method
324 Underground Transposition
325 Bridge
327 Vise Versa 1
329 Vise Versa 2
329 - Face-up Switch

331 Packet Prestidigitation
331 Blushing Jokers
335 Partial Ascanio
338 Jackpot
340 Inversion
341 Inversion Follow-up
342 Herb’s Variant

344 More Arch Triumphs
344 Count-Down Triumph
346 Flip-Flop Triumph
349 Spade Shuffle Triumphs
351 Zen Triumph

353 Transformational Analysis
353 Deck In Parvo
356 Micro-Macro Handling
357 Spirit Production and Transposition

358 Twists
358 Pineapple Twist
360 Pineapple Preserve
363 Twist’In
365 Turning Up

367 Round-Up For Rounders
367 Second Power Poker And Lead In
369 Sloppy Drunk Poker
371 Super Stoned Poker Deal
372 The Sting
375 Up The Sleeve Again
377 Vernon’s Aces Plus Kings
378 Magician vs. Gambler
381 Monte Mingle Move
382 Deal Dodge

383 Nods To Hofzinser
383 One Spectator D.M.
384 Mini-Observation Test
387 Last-Minute Departure
389 Kung-Fu Card
392 York’s Surprise Stab
395 The Lady Stretches
397 - Handling Notes
398 - Alternate Handling To Show Backs
398 - Marvin Johnson Variation
399 - Portable Fake Version (Racherbaumer)
400 They’re All Alike
401 - Routine
405 Tabled Riffle Shuffle Control
407 Recall and Neglect
407 - First Approach
407 - Second Approach
407 - Third Approach
408 - Endings
408 Double Speller
409 More Mental Reverses
411 - Fifth Method
412 - Sixth Method
412 - Variation Of Sixth Method
412 - Added Notes
413 Cliff Green’s Return Flight
415 Unpublished Handling of Cliff Green
417 Stull-Less Watch Stunner
419 - Patter
420 Unexpected Signed Card to Wallet
421 Cosmic Card
424 Working Against Time
426 Rouge En Noir
426 Flight
427 - Cascade Change

428 Haunted
428 Zany Gaff
430 Veiled Tosheroon
431 Impromptu Multiple Haunted Pack
434 Tosheroon Two
435 Seven-Up Float Treatise
438 - Basic Method
439 - Four-Card Method
440 - Flap-Card Method (Castillon)
440 - Sponge Ball Method
441 - Double Floatation

441 Coins

441 Okito Neato
441 Another Tabled Transpo
447 Tabled Transpo Plus
449 Ungaffed Tabled Transposition
450 O-Korto Box Rides Again
451 Magnetic Mario Meets Okito

456 Classics
456 Cap and Pence Handling
458 Copper and Silver: Cupped and Cozy
461 New Theory Coins Across
463 Midas Touch
465 Easy Thievery

466 Unclassified
466 Gypsy Switch
469 Dematerializing Coins
471 Kneet!
471 Six To One
474 Silent Gypsy
474 Pursed Coins Of Ishtar
477 Extinguished Smoker
478 Coin And Tip
479 - Variation
480 Hanging Tip

480 Ring-And-Rope
480 Ringer
483 Right On!

484 Afterword